Freebsd Fortunes 2

Air pollution is really making us pay through the nose.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
                -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy,
                   Ecole Superieure de Guerre

Al didn't smile for forty years.  You've got to admire a man like that.
                -- from "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"

Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether
machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about
as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.
                -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
                -- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
                -- Oscar Wilde [as he sipped champagne on his deathbed]

ALASKA:
        A prelude to "No."

Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself
or not.  Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has
a beginning and an end.  Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and
Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm.
                -- Tom Robbins

ALBRECHT'S LAW:
        Social innovations tend to the level
        of minimum tolerable well-being.

Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions.
The surest poison is time.
                -- Emerson, "Society and Solitude"